NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) --News stories about hoarding seem to appear with greater frequency these days, telling tales of people who have little space to eat or sleep because their floors, countertops ...

On the surface, clinical hoarding has little to do with adaptation to the environment. A closer analysis, however, suggests that people who store too much stuff are motivated by self-preservation ...

Hoarding OCD can cause someone to amass a variety of things. It may disrupt someone’s day-to-day life or ability to maintain a clean living space. Hoarding happens when you have difficulty discarding ...

Hoarding disorder is a mental health condition that makes it hard or impossible to throw things away. You save things regardless of how much they’re worth. Hoarding can make your living space ...

The Hoarding Research Team at BU School of Social Work, led by Dean Emerita Gail Steketee and Associate Professor Jordana Muroff, engages in activities that include the study of hoarding and its ...

Individuals who experience hoarding related to OCD may have distressing feelings about discarding items. It can drive compulsive saving behaviors that they recognize as excessive. Obsessive-compulsive ...

Scientists and the public are starting to pay more attention to compulsive hoarding, which is good since these hoarders may make up 5% of the population.

Some of the treatment options for compulsive hoarding are therapy, medication, support groups, and help from a professional organizer. Everyone likes having stuff in their home, and many people are ...

What comes to mind when you read the word "addiction?" Does it make you think of repetitive use of alcohol and drugs despite negative consequences? Or do you think of shopping, sexual activity, video ...

BUSSW doctoral student Christiana Bratiotis has been awarded the Charles H. Farnsworth Trust Aging Policy Research Fellowship in the amount of $30,000 for pre-dissertation research on "The Community ...

Hoarding disorder (HD) is significantly more common in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than it is in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studies suggest that between 3% and 5% of the population are compulsive hoarders, posing danger to themselves and others. Photo by ...